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In collaboration with Hacker Dojo, learn directly from experts across the many different facets of the blockchain industry. Built for both beginners & experts, this free lecture series is your ticket to a greater understanding of the current state of blockchain technology, and how it can benefit you.

("Blockchain Lecture Series")Understand the Technology

Over the course of 12 weeks we will be diving into the world of blockchain with the guidance of highly-reknowned speakers from across the industry. Mingle with both beginners and experts in the space, grab some free beer & pizza, and join us on a journey to a rapidly-shifting future. Presenters are each experts in their own fields and are excited to provide our audience with captivating insights into the rise of blockchain & distributed ledger technology. Our goal is to bring life-long learners together under one roof to learn and grow together, and become the launch-pad for unique ideas and initiatives. With the support of our generous sponsors, we invite you to attend, relax, think, and take action as you progress through the series with us. We will be live-streaming and reposting each lecture for you to review and share.

Schedule

1/23 | History of Money & Blockchain

with The DEN

1/30 | Decentralized Applications

Justin Wu | CoinState & Daniel Jones (@nixops) | BurstCoin

2/6 | Blockchain in Enterprise

Lennart Franztell | IBM & Koushik Gavini Rettex

2/13 | Legal & Regulatory State

Onki Kwan | Vanguardium Legal & Svet Sedov | FRIISCO

2/20 | Decentralzied Autonomous Organizations - The DAO

with Kambria

2/27 | Cryptoeconomics & Tokenomics

TBA

3/6 | Digital Identity: Reclaiming Your Data

TBA

3/13 | Supply Chain Management & IoT

TBA

3/20 | Consensus & Decentralization

TBA

3/27 | Real Estate

TBA

4/3 | Venture Capital

TBA

4/10 | Decentralized Technology Hackathon

with The DEN, Hacker Dojo, & More

In this introductory part of the series, we will be setting the foundation by understanding where Blockchain came from and where it is today. The two leads of the series will be providing the two talks. Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdullah, Co-Founder of The Den will be covering the History of Blockchain, how a new type of currency caught the world by storm. Our second part of the talk will be provided by Jason Rubicon & advisor to the DEN will cover the history of money & blockchain tech and all that it affects today.

The Bitcoin network is Blockchain technology’s first true use case, which allows for decentralized transactions of currency. In this lecture we will talk about how decentralized applications can be implemented in many real world use cases and how it will impact industries in the future.

In this lecture we will have speakers discuss where blockchain technology fits in to the enterprise sector and how existing companies are tapping into its potential. We will also explain how private and public blockchain solutions such as Hyperledger and Ethereum fit into real world used cases.

There are 5 major regulatory concerns the blockchain & cryptocurrency industry is facing at the moment and they are security, privacy, legal, regulations, and ethicals/morals. In this lecture we will travel back in time to look at the evolution of the regulatory response to blockchain and cryptocurrency as they developed and billions of dollars were raised throughout the era of the ICO.

With the introduction of programmable smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain, innovators began experimenting with the idea of operating an organization with code as a replacement for a central governing authority. In this lecture you will learn the history the fully decentralized organization, look into some real-world examples, and weigh the pros and cons of moving power in a company away from a centralized point.

When Blockchain technology first emerged, it solved two major hurdles preventing digital currency from truly taking off: the Double Spend problem and the Byzantine General's problem. With this newfound flexibility comes a need to incentivize all of the actors in the network to maintain its immutability and integrity as a functional ledger. Blockchain tech also creates opportunities to develop new economies with different rules and facets to act in new and unique ways to produce desired outcomes. In this lecture, we learn about the importance of cryptoeconomics and tokenomics in producing real value on a network.

Digital identity is a critical component in service delivery. However, relying on physical identity documents and conventional approaches in a digital age is not only tiresome and inconvenient, but also expensive. As we spend more and more time online, hackers and other criminals are gradually discovering new ways to access sensitive personal information and use it at the expense of users as well as their service providers. In this lecture we will dive into the possibilities blockchain opens up for a digital identity to become your access point to streamlined payments, travel, voting, and much more.

Salmonella outbreaks, supply shortages, and trade disputes are all problems distributors face constantly while manufacturing and shipping products. These issues require trustable data sources and communication channels to address efficiently. In this lecture we will learn how blockchain and IoT technologies complement each other and make for some clever solutions to recurring issues in supply chain management.

In 1997, the internet was the driving technological force that brought about the dot-com era. In this era of blockchains and cryptocurrency, that technology is decentralized consensus. This is the solution to allowing an exchange of value, information, and the execution of code without having to rely on a centralized entity. In this lecture we will cover the different aspects of decentralization and distributed networks, and look into the variety of different approaches blockchains are using to reach consensus across their networks.

There are many assets that we're familiar with in today's society - real estate, bonds, platinum, carbon, etc. These assets are often hard to fractionalize and move, and are heavily regulated, so we use fiat currency to represent proportions of that asset through its perceived dollar value. In this lecture we will look into blockchain technology’s ability to reduce complexity, increase liquidity, and increase accessibility to large real estate investments for previously untapped markets.

According to a recently published Diar report, venture capital investments in crypto and blockchain companies have nearly tripled in the first three quarters of 2018 from that of 2017. Diar references data from Pitchbook that reveals that blockchain and crypto-related companies have raised approximately $3.9 billion in venture capital this year. This figure represents a 280 percent increase compared to the amount of venture raised in 2017. Come out to the dojo to understand more about the driving force behind these investors’ decisions!

The lecture series culminates in a massive hackathon designed to challenge developers and business-people alike to mobilize their talents to create unique solutions to real-world problems through blockchain technology. More details will be released soon!

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